Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information (LAPSI). LAPSI is a European Commission-funded project on PSI. The LAPSI project intends to build a network apt to become the main European point of reference for high-level policy discussions and strategic action on all legal issues related to the access and the re-use of the PSI, namely in the digital environment. – http://www.lapsi-project.eu

The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH). DARIAH will provide a digital infrastructure with a European dimension for researchers in the arts and humanities that will allow them to get access to and join together the information and the knowledge that is embedded in digital content. – http://www.dariah.eu/

Virtual Multidisciplinary EnviroNments USing Cloud Infrastructures (VENUS-C). VENUS-C is a 7th Research Framework Programme project bringing together computing service providers and the scientific user community to develop, test and deploy a large, computing infrastructure for science and SMEs in Europe. – http://www.venus-c.eu/

OpenAIRE will build support structures for researchers in depositing FP7 research publications through the establishment of the European Helpdesk and the outreach to all European member states through the operation and collaboration of 27 National Open Access Liaison Offices. Furthermore, the project will establish and operate an electronic infrastructure for handling peer-reviewed articles as well as other important forms of publications through a common gateway. – http://www.openaire.eu/en/home

Coin Enterprise Collaboration and Interoperability (COIN). COIN is an EC funded Integrated Project (IP) to study, design, develop and prototype an open, self-adaptive, generic ICT integrated solution to support the 2020 vision, starting from notable existing research results in the field of Enterprise Interoperability and Enterprise Collaboration. - http://www.coin-ip.eu/

GridTalk: GridTalk is an EC funded project telling the success stories of Europe’s e-infrastructure, targeting three main audiences: policymakers working in government, science and industry; scientists with an interest in grid computing; and the general public. – http://www.gridtalk.org/about.htm

Summary: Montpellier Numerique has presented a new perspective of the city Montpellier by publishing an interesting visualization that shows the gender of the street names in the French city. Body: Using 2 different colours (blue for men and pink for girls), the visualization shows 3886 lines on the city map – and unveils quote a large gender devide. You can

Summary: The French National Assembly has adopted an amendment that requires transport companies to provide their data about timetables and routes as Open Data – a move that could lead to the development of more efficient travel assistance tools. Body: The amendment provides an obligation for regular public transport services "to make public key data re

Summary: Community Energy Manager was the winning project of the Energy & Environment Open Data Challenge, as announced on 4 July 2014. Now, the ODI has analysed the project ahead of its expected UK launch in Spring 2015: Body: Community Energy Manager is a new service for community energy groups, which helps them support local people to reduce their en

Summary: The National Health System (NHS) in the United Kingdom has re-launched the postponed Care.data initiative as part of a commitment to using big data to improve the delivery of public sector healthcare. Body: Using information about care and patients enables public health services to improve the quality of care provided. Due to the sensitive nature of

Summary: KohoVolit.eu is a Czech and Slovak parliamentary monitoring organisation that has been helping opposition representatives in about a dozen municipalities to record and publish voting data unofficially. Body: In order to do that more effectively, this organisation has developed an application that allows representatives to easily upload and visualize

Summary: Rome-based startup EvaBeta has created an interesting Web platform that reuses ISTAT Open Data sets and municipalities’ balance sheets. Body: The goal of the RatingComuniItaliani platform (which was aided by European funding for POR FESR 2007-2013) is to build a map of the socio-economic situation of every municipality. The platform rates both finan

Summary: The Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic has recently published the registry of the accounts of all the legal entities in Slovakia. Body: Information such as contact details, NACE code, and the annual financial reports can be accessed and reused in open formats through a RESTful API. More information can be found on the API documentation webpa

Summary: Using data sources currently available for the NHS, the company Mastodon C (commissioned by Nesta) helped the Latitude Prize to discover the overall count for all antibiotic items dispensed in the UK. Body: This infographic illustrates how 51 million antibiotic items were dispensed in the UK during 2013, with an average of 3.1 million per month over

Summary: To mark the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, Zeit online has released a series of eye-opening visualisations that display the legacy of Germany’s division 25 years on. Body: The visualisations have been created using public data on a variety of topics - including income, agriculture, gun-ownership, holiday destinations and the ownership o

Summary: Roberto Belardo, an Italian Software Engineer with a passion for rock climbing, has started a new project to create and share a free community driven 'json database’ of Italian climbing spots. Body: As Roberto explains in a blog post, "until now climbers have had to rely on word of mouth, printed guides or old style incomplete websites

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The main goal of ENGAGE project is the deployment and use of an advanced service infrastructure, incorporating distributed and diverse public sector information resources as well as data curation, semantic annotation and visualization tools, capable of supporting scientific collaboration and governance-related research from multi-disciplinary scientific communities, while also empowering the deployment of open governmental data towards citizens. ENGAGE is a Combination of CP & CSA project funded under the European Commission FP7 Programme.

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